I Had Help Baking Cookies

December 3, 2015

Dave and our son were off at work yesterday but I wasn’t alone in the kitchen. Wednesday evening when Lexie, Lanie and Rexie heard that I would be baking cookies, they begged to be taken down off the shelf in my sewing room/office where they live and be allowed to come help.

Well, of course, that meant they had to be properly attired for the occasion, so I was up until late Wednesday night making them each their own Santa hat.

The bobbin is to give you an idea of just how tiny the Santa hats are.

The turtles were so excited when they got to try them on Thursday morning!

Then we all headed down to the kitchen.

The turtles were fascinated by the tool I use to grate orange peel. The business end does look a little like a flipper.

I explained to them that we always use organic oranges whenever a recipe calls for freshly grated orange peel because oranges are one of the most sprayed crops.

When I started creaming the butter, sugar and orange peel together, they asked to be put up higher so they could see.

This old cake taker turned upside down did the trick.

We did have one or two minor mishaps with hats falling off.

It’s a good thing it was the flour it fell into and not the butter mixture.

Once the dough was completely mixed together, I weighed it on our food scale (<-affiliate link) to make sure the dough would be divided evenly between the 2 pans.

Of course, Lexie, Lanie and Rexie wanted to know how much they weighed too.

We had to check what they weighed in ounces and in grams!

They tried to help pat the dough into the pans but their little flippers just wouldn’t reach.

And then Lanie’s hat fell off when I was sprinkling sugar on the dough.

I think I’m going to have to add tiny little elastic chin straps so their hats stay on. 🙂

It was hard waiting for the cookies to bake.

And then there was the five minute wait before I could cut the cookies into wedges with my handy dandy cookie slicer. (<-affiliate link)

It was even harder to wait for the cookies to cool completely in the pan.

Fortunately turtles are very patient creatures.

Hey there’s one missing!

Oh… those little turtles have been taking lessons from Dave!

Well they were very good and very patient!

They were so good in fact, that today they’re going to help me decorate gingerbread cookies.

Leslie Sorenson

Carol

December 4, 201512:56 am

This looks like a great shortbread recipe and I do love shortbread…without turtle hats in it, of course. LOL Those turtles are hilarious! I like the idea of baking it in one pan and then cutting it in wedges. It looks amazing on the plate! I learned something, too, that oranges are the most sprayed. Interesting! Thanks for sharing this yummy recipe and for hopping along with us.

Diane Schmutzler

December 4, 20153:27 pm

I like to try a new recipe each year along with our traditional favorites. This is it! Spicy and simple. I will have to ask the grandkids to help as I don’t have any turtle friends (who could really use a good old-fashioned hat pin). Thanks for such a fun post.

Lindsay

Mary Anne

December 4, 20158:22 pm

Oh my goodness – being supervised by wee turtles must be so much fun (falling Santa hats and all). Those cookies look so yummy and I’m sure they smelled divine (which explains the lineup of hungry little turtles!)

Theresa

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Jenny

December 10, 201510:57 am

Loved the post! We have two stuffed lizards about the same size called Swishy and Swashy. They were in our wedding (with white ribbons on) and went on our honeymoon to Hawaii (they got grass skirts and flower leis). They are currently wearing scarves, though I can’t find the nicer ones from last year. I haven’t made them mittens though. Their heads are shaped wrong for hats, which is too bad, the santa hats are AWESOME! (and the peoples in my family love to wear santa hats, I’m wearing one now.)

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